Advice
From Abuja
The president of Defence and Police Officers’ Wives Association (DEPOWA), Mrs Omobolanle Olonisakin, has urged its teachers who participated in the just concluded three-day training workshop to inculcate new teaching techniques on their students.
Omobolanle gave the advice at the end of the three-day training workshop organised by DEPOWA, inconjunction with IB8 Ventures for its teachers/instructors at Mogadishu Cantonment in Abuja.
She noted that the training and re-training of teachers had become necessary because of the role they play in the development of any nation, most especially the students.
Omobolanle said just as training and re-training was required of any specialised profession, teachers as well needed to be trained to meet up with the present reality.
“The just concluded training has become necessary due to what COVID-19 has done to all facets of human endeavour, especially in area of education.
“It’s a known fact that globally, schools are all restrategising/re-organising their curriculum to able to meet up with the era of the new ways of doing things, therefore, our schools cannot afford to lag behind,” she said.
She also urged the participants to see it as a duty to inculcate what they have learnt during the course of the training in their students for the betterment of their lives.
“The whole world has been forced to adopt a new way of teaching/learning, brought about, by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I have no doubt that with what you have learnt, and by inculcating it in your students, there will much difference compared to previous time,”she added.
The president expressed optimism that by now, the participants should be able to structure the way they go about their work, especially blending the traditional way of teaching, with the present reality.
Omobolanle also commended IB8 ventures for the good work they have done, in making sure the worksop was a very impactful and all encompassing one.
“I appreciate you for impacting knowledge in my teachers/instructors, especially in area of online teaching/learning, which is now the new normal.
The Vice Principle of the association school, Mrs Ojo Fiyinfoluwa, however, commended the president of the association for the efforts put in place to organise the workshop at a time it was needed most.
Fiyinfoluwa noted that the workshop had really impacted something different from the traditional way of teaching, where teachers/instructors would have to come together in classrooms to learn.
“The workshop has proven to the participants that it is possible to blend both the traditional way of teaching/learning in our various schools.
“You don’t have to necessarily gather in the classrooms in the name of teaching your students. you can as well do that conveniently online without any stress, especially the normal distractions while in the classrooms,”she said.
She, however, acknowledged the fact that the workshop had really exposed her to so many teaching techniques out there that she never knew could be applied while teaching in the classroom.
The vice principal promised to apply all she had learnt during the course of the training in the discharge of her responsibilities as teacher/instructor.
She, however, advised her co-participants to see it as a point of duty, to bring to bare what they learnt during the course of the training for better service delivery.
The commandant of the school, Lt.-Cdr. Caroline Njoku, commended the president of the association, for her resilience in ensuring that such
workshop was organised to train the teachers/instructors in new ways of teaching/learning.
Njoku, however, expressed optimism that now that the workshop had come to an end, the participants would have been well equipped, especially in area of online teaching/learning as a new way of discharging their responsibilities.
Also, the Lead Consultant, IB8 Ventures, Mr Kunle Olatunji, however, commended Olonisakin for the rare privilege given to the company to patner with the association to train its teachers/instructors in the new way of teaching/learning.
“I have no doubt that as this workshop has come to an end, the participants have indeed gained a lot, especially in area of online teaching/learning.
“This new way of learning, as you all know, is the global way of learning/teaching now, brought about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that has affected all facet of human endeavour, especially in education sector, ” he said.
Olatunji, however, advised the participants to make sure they translate the knowledge they had acquired during the course of the training into the discharge of their responsibilities.
One of the participants, Mr Ojiakor Cyprain, acknowledged the fact that he had learnt a lot during the course of the training, especially how to blend the traditional way of teaching with the new way of teaching, using online techniques.
Cyprain, however, promised to inpact the knowledge he gained during the course of the training to his students as a teacher/instructor.
